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Halos and undecidability of tensor stable positive maps

Quantum Physics 2023-01-18 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

A map P\mathcal{P} is tensor stable positive (tsp) if Pn\mathcal{P}^{\otimes n} is positive for all nn, and essential tsp if it is not completely positive or completely co-positive. Are there essential tsp maps? Here we prove that there exist essential tsp maps on the hypercomplex numbers. It follows that there exist bound entangled states with a negative partial transpose (NPT) on the hypercomplex, that is, there exists NPT bound entanglement in the halo of quantum states. We also prove that tensor stable positivity on the matrix multiplication tensor is undecidable, and conjecture that tensor stable positivity is undecidable. Proving this conjecture would imply existence of essential tsp maps, and hence of NPT bound entangled states.

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@article{arxiv.2110.02113,
  title  = {Halos and undecidability of tensor stable positive maps},
  author = {Mirte van der Eyden and Tim Netzer and Gemma De las Cuevas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.02113},
  year   = {2023}
}

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30 pages and 8 figures. See https://youtu.be/G87-Ib2JRfw for a video about this paper

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